Every fee, package and growth plan rests on one question: what does it truly cost to deliver? We build the cost models, viability analyses and commissioner-grade evidence that answer it.
Care finances hide their truths well. A service can be busy and unprofitable; a placement can look funded until sleep-ins, sickness cover, supervision time and management oversight are loaded; a tender can be won at a price that guarantees a loss. The antidote is cost modelling that reflects delivery reality — and it is the foundation of everything we do here.
We build true-cost models: staffing at full employment cost including employer’s National Insurance, pension, holiday accrual and training time; realistic cover and vacancy assumptions; management and quality time allocated honestly; and overheads absorbed properly across the hours you actually deliver, not the hours you wish you did.
On that foundation sit the applications: placement and package costings, fee reviews and uplift cases evidenced for commissioners, tender pricing that your quality answers can live with, viability analysis for new services, and financial due diligence on services you might acquire.
Local authorities run fee-setting and cost-of-care processes on submitted evidence — and providers who submit rigorous, transparent cost data shape their own fees while others accept what emerges. The same is true in individual uplift requests: a request that reconciles assessed need to staffing hours to true cost per hour is procedurally difficult to refuse, because refusing it means disputing the need or the arithmetic. We build submissions to exactly that standard, in the formats authorities actually process.
Your true delivery costs are modelled from payroll, rotas and overheads — the number every decision needs.
The model is applied to your live issue: a package costing, a fee review, tender pricing, a viability study or diligence on a target.
Findings are documented to the standard the audience requires — commissioner submissions, board papers or negotiation packs.
We work the numbers with you through the negotiation, bid or investment decision, updating as terms move.
Different instruments: accountants report what happened; we model what delivery costs and what decisions imply. The two work together — our models draw on your accounts and give your accountant cleaner forward assumptions.
Yes — service-line profitability is one of the most requested analyses, and one of the most surprising. Shared overheads and blended payrolls routinely hide a loss-making line inside an apparently healthy business.
Yes. Where authorities run cost-of-care or fee-setting exercises, we prepare your submission so your real cost structure is represented — the providers who engage rigorously with these processes influence the rates everyone then lives with.
Providers needing costings, fee evidence, pricing, viability analysis or acquisition diligence.
Start with the cost model — every fee conversation and growth decision gets easier from there.